"I do feel kind of insulted," a little purple dragonling said.

"We followed the specifications!" insisted a pony wearing a yellow hard hat.

Spike read a pillar-mounted plaque in front of the bizarre landscape which covered the Equestrian Evil Artifacts Repository:

"This place is not a place of honor...no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here...nothing valued is here.

What is here is dangerous and repulsive to us."

"Really?" Spike said with an expression of disgust. "What is WRONG with you?"

The pony pointed at a document. "To make the place unappealing and keep ponies out, we're supposed to cover it with ugly spikes. Page 3904, paragraph three. Read it yourself."

Spike tapped a page. "But look at the diagram. You're supposed to cover the landscape with sharp, pointy obstacles. You're not supposed to cover it with grotesque, twisted statues of ME making hideous faces and picking my nose!"

Some inspirations:

https://www.damninteresting.com/this-place-is-not-a-place-of-honor/

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/rants/nothing-like-this-will-be-buil.html

Author's Note

I wrote this for the 2022 May round of Loganberry's Flashfic 150 contest, themed "Just This Once" (link)

This story's win secured me the happy privilege of choosing the following month's Flashfic 150 contest theme.
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